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tombell

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    Comment #24221906

    I've never had an issue running binaries written in Go I've compiled myself. From what I've experienced, only appears to affect .app binaries.

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    Comment #17153212

    should be 141 if you want to print out a string that would be 140 characters, NULL termination is a thing.

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    Comment #15531858

    There are so many lines in the post series that don't make very much sense if you understand the YC program. > We'd aim to have 4 to 6 developers on the project within the first fe…

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    Comment #11132505

    Yes, the public API for a library that the developer interfaces with. Not a web APi.

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    Comment #10968461

    They may also have internal apps written using Swift which are not public. However it's also nice to have a public style guide.

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    Comment #6071566

    I have my GitHub profile, but it doesn't have much on it except a few random open sourced projects and some random open source contributions. A lot of other work is for past/curren…

  7. story
    Ask HN: Best way to find a better job without contacts

    I lack the contacts for finding a better job in my local area. Does anyone have any tips for finding a better job in the short term without spending months making new contacts? I'm…

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    Comment #5756135

    If you built an app knowing it NEEDS push notifications on a platform where it's optional for the user to enable/disable, you failed as a developer. The application should be able …

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    Comment #4941913

    Even if you change one post, you still need to 'rebuild' every thing. I can't see how this can be reduced.

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    Comment #4941895

    It's a static site, you have no idea what files depend on each other. So everything has to be rebuilt.

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    Comment #4344459

    "The commands will trigger a webhook call to your server, where the actual deployment/testing/whatever command you need takes place." The end user still needs to run something on t…

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    Comment #4343168

    So you came here to advertise your own product in a post about mine? You're basically deploying a thing that'll send http requests to another server which then executes specific ta…

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    Comment #4343142

    Yup, I plan on writing a pretty detailed section in chapter 4 about the hubot brain. Redis is just the default backend for persisting the brain.

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    Comment #4343133

    I'm trying to understand which part of my book you're trying to 'avoid'. Because from what I understand it's just the deploying bit? Which my hubot-factory already did, and it is b…

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    Comment #4343105

    How does one go about writing their own commands for a hosted product?

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    Comment #4342975

    This book is a work in progress, feel free to open an issue on the repo to suggest things you want to see added, and I'll add them!

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    Comment #4342949

    I recently added a HTTP route to hubot `/hubot/help` that you can visit if you enable the HTTP support to view the help on a page rather than flood channels.

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    Comment #4248223

    The only issue I have with this is having to type 'octogit' as a command or alias it, compared to 'hub' or 'git'.

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    Comment #3937150

    So the Mafia are hiring Rails devs, cool I guess? How about people just move on and care about something more important... like beer.

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    Comment #3834603

    Ctrl (or Cmd) Click, done.

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    Comment #3824766

    You're still coding in assembler I assume?

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    Comment #3762594

    > I disagree, he was simply posting comments about a professional athlete on his own twitter account, it's not like he was yelling it on the street or putting up billboards. I thin…

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    Comment #3563461

    > So, the answer would be to never scrap features (that's why you did proper design beforehand, right?). Sure, if you work in some sort of enterprise or corporate environment.

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    Comment #3562403

    So you end up with a bunch of commits in a random order relating to different things. Lets say person A and person B are working on two features both committing to master. Person A…

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    Comment #3562219

    Tagging is useful for libraries and such. But for web sites and the like, you can just use the deployed commit SHA as an identifier. Much like GitHub does https://github.com/site/s…